"Kakarot, are you ready?" Vegeta's booming voice carried over.
"Of course."
Goku looked calmly at Vegeta. An invisible aura erupted between them, and a tense atmosphere gradually filled the air.
Seeing this, Vegeta's stern face turned serious. Seven years of training across the universe had given him new insight into the Super Saiyan transformation. Although he had yet to cross blows with Goku, Vegeta considered his own strength to have already surpassed Goku's.
Neither of them spoke again. They simply looked at each other.
About half a minute passed, and a gale suddenly whipped up between them.
Goku's and Vegeta's bodies slowly floated upward. When they rose to a height of over a hundred meters, dense dark clouds coiled around them, and wisps of golden aura abruptly ignited.
Whoosh!
As if by prior agreement, Goku and Vegeta both turned into Super Saiyans at the same time.
Brutal energy appeared out of nowhere, and a vacuum suddenly formed in the sky. An incomparably heavy pressure came crashing down like a towering mountain.
In an instant, the sky split open. Two powerful auras pressed against each other, forming two domains that collided.
Crash!
Their figures vanished, and an intense clash immediately unfolded. Great waves of energy surged up in roaring billows, layer upon layer of dense power interweaving. The tremendous shock seemed as if it would shatter space itself. The impacts that kept erupting awed every spectator while also leaving them with endless room to imagine what was happening.
The moment the battle began, its intensity exceeded all imagination.
Their movements were simply too fast. Each collision lasted only a brief fraction of a second before they quickly separated, so that before an afterimage had even faded, the next attack had already followed.
In just the first dozen or so seconds, no